Viaje al Exterior

Europe and Africa, 1976

 

Canada
 
February 21
 
•    Greetings conveyed to Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, from the plane.
 
Soviet Union
Moscow
 
February 22

•    Arrival at the Vnukovo airport.
 
February 23

•    Fidel laid a wreath at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Mausoleum in the Red Square.
•    Talks held with Stane Dolanc, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Presidium of the Central Committee of Yugoslavia’s Communist League.
 
February 24

•    Fidel attended the sessions of the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
 
February 25

•    Speech delivered at the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR.
 
February 27

•    Conversation with Gisele Rabesahala, Secretary-General of the Independence Congress Party of Madagascar (AKFM).
 
February 29

•    Conversation with Nito Alves Batista, member of the Political Bureau of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
•    Conversation with Mohamed Siad Barre, president of the Supreme Revolutionary Council of the Democratic Republic of Somalia.
 
March 1st

•    Fidel attended the reception hosted by the Cuban delegation in honor of the Latin American and Caribbean delegations attending the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at the Cuban embassy.
 
March 2

•    Conversation with Abdel Fattah Ismail, Secretary-General of the Political Organization United National Front of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen.
•    Conversation with the delegation of the African Party for the Independence of Senegal.
 
March 3

•    Conversation with Mamadi Keita, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Guinea.
•    Conversation with the delegation of the African National Council of Zimbabwe.
•    Conversation with Abdel M. Abu-Meiser and Yassir Abed Rabbo, members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
 
March 4

•    Meeting between the heads of delegations from several Communist and Workers’ Parties of Socialist countries and Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other members of the communist party.
•    Conversation with Moses Garoeb, administrative secretary of SWAPO of Namibia.
•    Conversation with Iradzh Iskanderi, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the People’s Party of Iran.
 
March 5

•    Conversation with a delegation of the Communist Party of Indonesia.
 
Yugoslavia
Brioni
 
March 6


•    Arrival at the airport of the city of Pula.
•    Talks held with Josip Broz Tito, President of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and president of the Communist League, in the Isle of Banga.
•    Words pronounced at a dinner hosted in honor of the Cuban delegation.
 
March 7

•    Talks held with President Josip Broz Tito, in the Isle of Banga.
•    Visit to President Josip Broz Tito photo lab and workshop in the Isle of Banga.
•    Tour on board of the presidential yacht ‘Podgorka’ to the city of Koper, in the Republic of Slovenia.
 
Koper

 
•    Fidel attended a folk dance show during his visit to Koper city downtown area.
•    Visit to Hotel Capris.  Fidel talked to local workers and signed the   visitors’ book.
 
March 8
•    Visit to the ruins of a Roman circus in the city of Pula.
•    Message sent to President Josip Broz Tito from the plane.
 
Bulgaria
Sofia

 
•    Arrival at Sofia’s airport.
•    Restful break at the mountainous region of Borovets.
 
March 11
•    Talks held with Todor Yivkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria and president of the Council of State of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria.
•    Words pronounced at the farewell dinner.
 
March 12

•    Message sent to President Todor Yivkov from the plane.
 
Algeria
Algiers
 

•    Arrival at Dar el Beida Airport.
•    Interview granted to a group of journalists at the airport’s protocol lounge.
•    Conversation with Houari Boumediene, President of the Council of the Revolution and of the Council of Ministers of Algiers, at the People’s Palace.
•    Fidel attended a dinner hosted in honor of the Cuban delegation, at the People’s Palace.
 
Ben Aknoun
 
March 13
 

•    Talks held with Houari Boumediene, President of the Council of the Revolution and of the Council of Ministers of Algiers, at the Djenan El Mabrouk Village.
•    Dialogue with a farmer during the visit to the socialist village of Tessallah El Merdja.
•    Dialogue with a doctor and two nurses during a visit to the doctor’s office of the socialist village of Tessallah El Merdja.
 
Algiers
 
March 14
 

•    Talks held with Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed, Prime Minister of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, at the People’s Palace.
•    Talks held with Oscar Montero, minister of State of the Presidency of Mozambique, before departing from Algiers, at the airport’s Lounge of Honor.
•    Statements made to the press at the airport.
•    Message sent to President Houari Boumediene from the plane.
 
Republic of Guinea
Conakry
 
March 15
 

•    Arrival at Gbessia’s International Airport.
•    Talks held with Ahmed Sekou Toure, Agostinho Neto and Luis Cabral, Presidents of Guinea, Angola and Guinea Bissau respectively, at the ‘First of March’ Hall of the People’s Palace.
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the mausoleum that keeps the remains of the national heroes Almany Samory Toure and Diallo Alpha Yaya.
•    Speech delivered at the ‘September 28th’ Stadium.
•    Talks held with Luis Cabral, President of Guinea Bissau, at the Cuban residence.
•    Fidel attended a dinner hosted in honor of the Cuban delegation at the People’s Palace.